• ScreenRant

Overview

ScreenRant has a rating of 1.13 stars from 117 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers complaining about ScreenRant most frequently mention fake news problems. ScreenRant ranks 357th among Movie sites.

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Top Positive Review

“Fun site for movie lovers”

Shawn L.
6/17/20

When I want to read late-breaking movie news, I'll visit the trade sites like Variety or Hollywood Reporter. However, when I want something fun, I go to ScreenRant. A lot of people hate lists and fun articles, and that is fine, but I would prefer fun stuff to endless regurgitation of the same stories over and over. For people who hate fun, there is always Deadline. For people who love to read fun stuff about movies and TV, ScreenRant is well worth the follow.

Top Critical Review

“Spammy entertainment site that doesn't credit sources”

Ss S.
3/7/24

Overall entertainment sites in general have ads running on their site, but Screenrant makes the experience impossible for the user. The pop-up video ads are more noticeable on mobile. The other experience to share is that they do tend to not source where they get an exclusive. Sometimes they do which seems to be other sites owned by the same media company, but otherwise no credit is given to the original source. That is a sneaky practice and contributes to mis-information.

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Thumbnail of user ssts930
3 reviews
0 helpful votes
March 7th, 2024

Overall entertainment sites in general have ads running on their site, but Screenrant makes the experience impossible for the user. The pop-up video ads are more noticeable on mobile. The other experience to share is that they do tend to not source where they get an exclusive. Sometimes they do which seems to be other sites owned by the same media company, but otherwise no credit is given to the original source. That is a sneaky practice and contributes to mis-information.

Tip for consumers:
They are an entertainment news site so they do not sell any products. They current pay for writers is extremely low. Lower than other competitors regardless of experience. Their desire to push cheap content hurts user experience.

Thumbnail of user hyarl5544
1 review
0 helpful votes
March 12th, 2024

Non factual and bulls*it. Also adwall every chance they get. They're an internet company bent on spreading misinformation and clickbait stories.

Thumbnail of user jennyt339
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 21st, 2024

As has been stated by others before me, the articles are incredibly repetitive and just not written in a way that makes them at all entertaining to read which is kind of a fatal flaw for a fun news and think pieces site about pop culture.
This lack of quality combined with the fact they're rarely actually saying anything or stating concrete facts AND the fact there's so, so many articles and some writers have allegedly written thousands of them in a couple of years makes me suspect they only write a sentence or two and let some ai generate the rest. It could also be the plagiarism others have pointed to. Maybe it's both, ai is known to plagiarise after all. Tho I wouldn't put it past them to also do it on purpose.
And if they aren't using ai I'm guessing they're forcing these writers to write x amount of articles each day to get paid so they're forced to churn out soulless mush. Which, for the record, isn't better.

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No physical products I'm aware of (thankfully)

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Thumbnail of user hipv
1 review
5 helpful votes
June 17th, 2020

The best thing about Screen Rant is the diversity of opinions that the site has on a regular basis, which means that you get a lot of different POVs on the site. They also cover several shows/comics/movies that don't get any attention from other websites. I feel like every site can be criticized for valid things, but I see many people hating on Screen Rant (and on similar sites) because they read this or that opinion that they really hate. However, if you actually look on the site, there's usually another article written from someone else who feels differently and provides other POVs. As a fan, I love seeing my favorite things being talked about, and I love having my assumptions challenged by diverse opinions. I really like the site and it's a shame that it gets trashed on by fans who want to live inside an echo chamber.

Thumbnail of user thecyber98
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 30th, 2023

A bunch of losers who - failed in life, criticise others peoples movies. They aren't funny and they are pathetic.

Thumbnail of user shawnl185
1 review
4 helpful votes
June 17th, 2020

When I want to read late-breaking movie news, I'll visit the trade sites like Variety or Hollywood Reporter. However, when I want something fun, I go to ScreenRant. A lot of people hate lists and fun articles, and that is fine, but I would prefer fun stuff to endless regurgitation of the same stories over and over. For people who hate fun, there is always Deadline. For people who love to read fun stuff about movies and TV, ScreenRant is well worth the follow.

Thumbnail of user thunderg
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
January 8th, 2024

ScreenRant knows nothing about anything that they are writing about and what they say makes zero sense all they do is kissing $#*! for corporate giants like Disney it's stupid and pointless

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Thumbnail of user kerry.rutherford
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 23rd, 2023

Used to be my goto for all things tv/movies. Now i have a hard time even finding content worth watching. Money money money, remeber where you came from folks.

Thumbnail of user aniyahj2
1 review
0 helpful votes
January 22nd, 2024

This site is a Google SEO hack. You have tonnes and tonnes of articles about a movie claiming to explain every aspect of it repeatedly it. In reality all you have is a blog by hired freelancers who stuff keywords throughout the article. Not your site if your a real movie lover.

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Thumbnail of user zstewart40
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 26th, 2023

What really makes me mad is that they're too cowardly to enable comments on their articles, likely because they know how negative they would be.

Thumbnail of user mejia.sangria
2 reviews
6 helpful votes
October 9th, 2023

I have never in my life seen so many articles that are just the same few sentences repeated dozens of times but paraphrased slightly different each time. You get the first paragraph where they basically talk about the subject but they are very vague and they beat around the bush to kill time. Then the next paragraph says exactly the same thing but with slightly different phrasing. Then the next paragraph does precisely the same thing only in a much worse way. Then the fourth paragraph is usually almost identical to the first or second paragraph, on and on it goes. This website really needs to hire some legit writers if they care at all about the terrible quality of their current writers' entries and they want to be known for more than just a place to go if you want to be driven up a wall with a horribly written article.

Thumbnail of user megannec4
1 review
0 helpful votes
December 10th, 2023

OMG! Couldn't even get through ONE article! The constant pop up, intrusive, INVASIVE Ads literally ECLIPSED the page

Thumbnail of user somep3
1 review
40 helpful votes
January 11th, 2021

This is one of the most inconsistent and illogical movie sites ever. They have entire articles based on fan art and make it seem like it's legit movie news or "what if articles". Numerous headlines that have nothing to do with the subject at hand and articles that constantly contradict previous ones. Most egregious is most of the writers have no idea what they are talking about. The epitome of fake fans, all just for clicks

Tip for consumers:
You're better off reading more credible sites

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Thumbnail of user unicornssparkles4
1 review
1 helpful vote
December 8th, 2023

I stopped wasting my time reading articles of this site as I realised I just kept feeling more and more annoyed at what I was reading and that wasn't good for my mental health. The so-called "journalists" of this site have no idea what they're talking about, having clearly not watched the TV show/film etc. they're writing about, while also being very unreasonably nitpicky and snowflakey about every little thing about whatever TV show or film they're writing about, or should I say attacking, while not even getting their facts right. The same goes for Gamerant, it's sister site, with articles that despite claiming have to be objective are nothing but the stupid, ridiculous opinions of the authors that are expressed in such a childish, juvenile, opinionated and condescending way, making out their opinions are fact, with a lot of what they write as well not even being backed up with any evidence.

There are many examples of this but one significant example I can think of is all the articles they'd write about Friends, nitpicking at every little single thing about it as being offensive, like saying the friends are bad friends to each other by making fun of each other affectionately, like that's what friends do, you mustn't have actual close friends to know that, while clearly not having even watched the show. It even made some misogynist comments, like how in Friends Rachel should've just stopped seeing her male friend Mark like Ross wanted if it bothered him so much, as well as a load of other very unreasonable opinions that made no sense whatsoever. A lot of the titles are even followed with "according to reddit users" like they can't just come up with their own ideas. Also the "Disney Villains who were right", actually claiming that they were right to kill people or whatever simply because they had a motive, as well as all sorts of other kinds of ridiculous rationalisations and condoning of immoral and wrong stuff.

I make sure to steer well away from this site as well as it's sister site Gamerant from now on.

Thumbnail of user annew825
3 reviews
2 helpful votes
October 5th, 2023

Badly written junk, ripped off from other websites and Youtubers usually. Add to that a needless social agenda stuffed into articles as filler and generally bad takes in opinions which go against the status quo to be edgy, and it makes for a pretty terrible reading experience. The Ads are pretty awful as well

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Thumbnail of user gregd500
2 reviews
1 helpful vote
March 4th, 2023

Screen Rant is the tabloid version of the newspaper world. They make up tantalizing stories to attract visitors. High visitor counts mean more views for advertisers who pay to be on their worthless site. Make it up as they go, with no real content that has been verified, by anyone of substance. Weak reporting by possible newspaper columnist rejects.

Tip for consumers:
Ignore 100% of everything.

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Thumbnail of user caltaert
1 review
3 helpful votes
May 14th, 2023

Enough is enough, already. So many popups, that refuse to close when you hit the microscopic 'x' dead-center. They've introduced a new, more annoying form of ad that surrounds your screen in a black border, thicker on the top and bottom, which displays banner ads. You can't even read the article because it's cut off by the border.

It's an ad site. That's it, that's all. Clickbait for cash.

Thumbnail of user th404
1 review
3 helpful votes
December 31st, 2022

Every ScreenRant "article", if you can call them that, I have every read is either wrong or at least badly thought-out, esp. When it comes to Marvel/DC. "Marvel reveals real reason behind..." - Marvel didn't "reveal" anything, they published a story, sometimes decades ago, and ScreenRant drums up some story about it as if it breaking news. Just poor content, which is why I now avoid. Maybe if we ignore them, the site will die off. Here's hoping.

Thumbnail of user caitlind56
1 review
1 helpful vote
June 17th, 2020

Screen Rant is always up to date with their reality tv news and provides an interesting angle on topics. I'll always use their website for entertainment news!

Thumbnail of user dustint57
1 review
30 helpful votes
January 24th, 2021

I would give 0 stars if I could. I frequently get adds for ScreenRant articles based on what movies, video games, ect. I enjoy... I almost always read the caption for any article before I read who published it, and 9/10 times I can guess if it's a ScreenRant article because they are spewing total $#*!e nonsense opinions. It is always clickbait just to rack up views because they pay people crap to write crap articles for them.

Tip for consumers:
Don't bother reading their articles

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Thumbnail of user francistlopaz
27 reviews
16 helpful votes
August 30th, 2023

This site is by far the WORST site ever! All I want is to read an article. But NO! They won't letcha do that with an Adblocker! And all the ads these days are scam ads!

Tip for consumers:
Let's pass a bill to force these websites to let people access with Adblockers.

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Thumbnail of user NeroAngelo_84
1 review
2 helpful votes
September 14th, 2023

Total garbage, no standards, accepts all kind of crap trash woke articles, while being woke does not need to mean you cannot write good articles, this is the case here. Articles such as 10. Characters that could easily beat Superman:

1. "Catwoman, because she's a woman and has to give birth, besides her beauty can distract superman and then he can scratch his face with her adamtium claws MEOOOW!"

2. Robin, because he is gay (probably) and being gay means you have to fight for your rights, Superman isn't gay, he does not know how to fight for your homosexuality, of course he loses to Robin's sexuality!

WHAT? I could pull better things out of my $#*!!

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Thumbnail of user johnm11780
1 review
2 helpful votes
March 14th, 2023

Every article seems to lead with some sort of made up problem for whatever fandom they are attacking. They then go on and on about something based off no fact just opinion and then try and cheery pick some other stuff to try and back their opinion. I use to think they were a solid place to get movie news but its just junk.

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Thumbnail of user joset522
1 review
3 helpful votes
January 17th, 2023

SR only publishes mediocre articles based on old news and/or simply reprints other sources in a repetitive fashion. It has virtually no original content, no fact checking or proofreading. Why, exactly, Google considers it a reliable "news" source is a mystery.

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Thumbnail of user chainspike1
1 review
1 helpful vote
April 23rd, 2023

I'm done with screenrant. I'm tired of all the pop up ads. When an ad comes up I press the x multiple times and it doesn't go away. That's just dirty! Nobody wants the stupid ads anyway and screenrant keeps forcing them on users now pressing the x doesn't make ad go away and they are in your face the whole time I'm on the site. I'm done!

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Ben Kendrick is the publisher of Screen Rant, the site's head film critic, as well as host of the Screen Rant Underground and Total Geekall podcast. He is a member of the Denver Film Critics Society as well as the Online Film Critics Society - with work referenced, cited, or syndicated on CNN, Wikipedia, Huffington Post, Rotten Tomatoes, IMDB, Yahoo, and Business Insider, among others. A graduate of the New School’s Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program, Ben has been passionate about movies ever since standing in line for a midnight showing of Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade when he was eight years-old. Thanks to a background in fiction writing, Ben is drawn to films that make story and character a priority; however, that doesn't stop him from enjoying a range of Hollywood offerings - from blockbuster action flicks to campy so-bad-they're-good B-movies.

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